Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.